Quotes About Self

Who am I then? The one who sees that. The awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought—or the emotion or sense perception—happens.

The world as it appears to us now is, as I said, largely a reflection of the egoic mind. Fear being an unavoidable consequence of egoic delusion

The thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it. This

What you usually refer to when you say I is not who you are. By a monstrous act of deductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords of the thought of I in your mind and whatever the I is identified with.

The unconscious compulsion to enhance one's identity through association with an object is built into the very structure of the egoic mind.

In present-day humans, consciousness is completely identified with its disguise. It only knows itself as form and therefore lives in fear of the annihilation of its physical or psychological form.

A medida que uno crece, va formándose una imagen mental de sí mismo basada en su condicionamiento personal y cultural. A este yo fantasma lo llamamos ego.

Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

Ser libre del tiempo es ser libre de la necesidad psicológica del pasado para su identidad y del futuro para su realización.

Nota: la mente es un instrumento magnífico si se usa correctamente. Utilizada en forma inadecuada, sin embargo, se vuelve muy destructiva. Para decirlo en forma más exacta, no es tanto que usted la utilice inadecuadamente, generalmente usted no la utiliza en absoluto. Ella lo utiliza a usted. Esa es la enfermedad. Usted cree que usted es su mente. Ese es el engaño. El instru-mento se ha apoderado de usted.

so when you look to the future for salvation, you are unconsciously looking to your own mind for salvation.

I understood that the intense pressure of suffering that night must have forced my consciousness to withdraw from its identification with the unhappy and deeply fearful self, which is ultimately a fiction of the mind.

Solamente la Presencia puede liberarnos del ego y solamente podemos estar presentes Ahora, no ayer ni mañana. Solamente la Presencia puede deshacer el pasado que llevamos sobre los hombros y transformar nuestro estado de conciencia.

There is nothing the ego likes less than to hear about itself.

So, whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware at that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens, your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.

El amor es un estado de Ser. Tu amor no está fuera; está en lo profundo de ti. Nunca puedes perderlo, no puede dejarte. No depende de otro cuerpo

While trying to find yourself in things, you may end up losing yourself in things.

nuestra propia mente, con su corriente casi constante de pensamientos, pensando sobre el pasado, preocupándose por el futuro. Cometemos el gran error de identificarnos con nuestra mente

Never personalize Christ. Don't make Christ into a form identity. Avatars, divine mothers, enlightened masters, the very few that are real, are not special as persons. Without a false self to uphold, defend, and feed, they are more simple, more ordinary than the ordinary man or woman. Anyone with a strong ego would regard them as insignificant or, more likely, not see them at all.

long as they are their mind, what they fear and resist most is their own awakening.

you may encounter intense inner resistance to disidentifying from your pain. This will be the case particularly if you have lived closely identified with your emotional pain-body for most of your life and the whole or a large part of your sense of self is invested in it. What this means is that you have made an unhappy self out of your pain-body and believe that this mind-made fiction is who you are.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over.

The word "identification" is derived from the Latin word idem, meaning "same" and facere, which means "to make." So when I identify with something, I "make it the same." The same as what? The same as I. I endow it with a sense of self, and so it becomes part of my "identity.

the ego is a derived sense of self...